The five-time Drivers’ and Constructors’ title-winners will run a brand new power unit in 2019 to improve efficiency.

Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will be tasked with cementing the Silver Arrows’ place in the history books, as the team look to be the first in Formula 1 history to claim six-straight Drivers’ and Constructors’ doubles.

Mercedes launched their 2019 challenger – the W10 – on 13 February, but nobody at Brackley are resting on their laurels ahead of the new season.

“We’ve made changes to the cooling architecture of the power unit,” Andy Cowell, Mercedes’ Managing Director of Performance Powertrains to the official F1 website, “which hopefully provide aerodynamic benefit on the car and also provide efficiency benefit on the power unit – so hopefully a win on both the chassis and on the power unit.